Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 553: Goofy Hoverboards 

With the broken striders try to bring them to the overworld and use speed potions on it and use it like a plane lol

Etho is a perfect representation that quality is better than quantity

Etho is going to find that barrel years later and be puzzled why it's named "Footsteps."

Meanwhile at Mojang, the programmers are watching Etho describe how the sensor should work.....Write that down! Write that down!

You gotta bring the striders into the overworld, use them as someting to look around the mega project

He finally removed the torches around the fishing shack!! Finally! I can sleep peacefully now~ thank you.

The striders are because you loaded your world in a snapshot, the first snapshot when these guys were introduced didn't properly give them gravity, so the ones you generated before that was fixed are just like that now. If you generate new ones they should be good still :P

"And now this entire place is mob proof-" *slime slaps around*

I found Etho when I was in elementary school. Now I am wrapping up my undergraduate degree this school year. He is the ONLY reason why Minecraft is still in my life after all of these years. Watching his videos feels like watching a friend. Something about his content is so genuine, familiar, and comfortable.

I can wait 'till a future episode where Etho creates something in the End it gets blasted to smithereens b/c of that Wither

I watched etho in elementary I watched etho in high school I watched etho when i was in college I watched etho when i met my girlfriend I watched etho when i was homeless I watched etho when i did acid I watched etho yesterday Watching etho rn after a long day of work

He just talked about starting a new world a couple of episodes ago I still agree, a new world would just get in the way of doing the things he wants to do and things we want to see.

You can tell Etho knows what he’s doing when one of the first things he mentions is using skulk sensors as a timer

Etho really out here blessing our Mondays with some of his Minecraft magic

For sounds on the skulk sensor, why not take the noteblock tone mechanic? Placing the sensor on smooth stone, glass, wool, slime tunes it to a particular sound event like footsteps, damage, pistons, trapdoors, water flowing, etc. This would reduce complexity and be suitable for world generation if smooth stone and skulk sensor generate together for footstep vibration

That Wither is gonna come back to haunt Etho, just you watch.

Etho: I wanna work on some smaller projects today. Also Etho: Let’s build a wither skeleton farm.

i'm at a point on youtube where i litterally whisper "yes" to myself whenever Etho uploads

"oh sorry" now that he's touched the ground.. pushes him over "oh he still floats" alright Etho, you dodged strideslaughter with that one, next time though!

When he said 'just a typical Canadian winter." It made me choke

Other People: I love walking my strider Etho: Walk? Yours don't float? Mine do.

Petition for the "hoverboards" to never be fixed:

Etho, the floating striders are from when you were running the snapshotsh; there was a bug that made all striders generated then have a tag that made them immune to gravity. Since they didn't die, they kept the tag, but new striders should act like normal. Make sure you keep those striders safe for whatever you have planned!

Etho, you could dedicate an episode to getting all of the achievements that you have left in your world. I don't know if you did that already, but if you didn't I think it could be interesting..

When you realized him slabbing the neather was years ago and you remember it like last month..

speaking of the implementation of sculk sensors: filtering for different triggers depending on the block they get placed on; similar to note blocks (for example, filtering aggressive mobs sounds when placed on bone blocks or something along those lines)

Mojang: The Boat has Legs! Etho: No they have wings!

I don't think I would want to see this world go away, it's so special. I liked, I think it was, Mumbo's idea of feeding it when it hears a sound you want and trimming it's ear thingys to get it to forget a sound and maybe have it able to accept multiple sounds

Yes, sapling growth has changed in 1.16. ilmango mentioned this in one of his peaceful episodes, I think it was. He had to redesign one of his tree farms to deal with it. I would recommend checking out his video on it so you can get the full rundown, since I can’t remember what’s going on now.

Oh my goodness, I thought he'd _never_ remove those torches at the fishing shack!

"Just a typical Canadian winter" best Etho quote in at least a few months

Mural Idea: A tribute to your old single player modded series. Kelp Farm: add fishes into the water maybe?

Thoughts for the kelp wall, maybe use stained color glass to make a mosaic pattern in it? maybe some fish or some other patterns

EtHo WHeN wILl yOu GeT RiD oF tHe TorChES!

This has to be the most wholesome community on RU-vid. Thanks Etho!

i came back after years of not watching him, didn’t think i’d cry this much

Hey, Etho have you thought of switching back to normal terrain generation with the new mountains instead of keeping the amplified terrain?

I first started watching Etho when I was in high school a few years back. I've since finished high school, took a college degree and finished my masters last year. I'm working now and would be considered as an "adult" and it's so weird how I still get excited to watch Etho's videos after so long. Although it's been so long, I feel like I have never shown how much I appreciate the effort you put into every video you make. Thank you for releasing a video whenever my week or day is going kinda bad and in much need of an uplifting. You always bring a smile to my face. I think that I speak for all your older subs that although we don't know what you look like on the outside, we love and know who you are within. It makes me sad that one day you might just stop posting videos, but not until the Lets Play is finished (and we know thats never gonna happen :) ). I hope that if you read this comment (fingers crossed) it brings you as much joy as you bring us! Peace - CPT

We need to protect this man at all costs, he’s too wholesome

This is the first episode of Ethos I've watch and he starts of with the biggest flex possible

It's interesting that your idea was similar to Simply Sarc's idea for Sculk Sensors. I thought it was a bit too complicated the way he explained it, but your explanation makes me think it's possible. Hopefully Mojang listens to us and makes this good feature great!

Glad you finally got rid of those torches around the fishing shack Etho!

I started watching Etho in elementary school. I submitted my college applications today. I love this man so much, he’s been in my life for so long.

Etho being so happy about the hoverboard bug really made my day! Such genuine and harmless joy!

Etho, remember before mending when you'd switch off your sword to kill small slimes? Good times.

Its been almost two years since I stopped watching Ergo, I was so busy with school! I watched this video today and I immediately knew again why I always watched him. I love his content, its like a childhood nostalgia now. Yet I dont think youll ever grow to old or bored for his content. I hope he still enjoys playing just as much as we do watching him play. Since I remember him uploading more back in the day. Either way I have lots of catching up to do. I guess Ill just have to make time... I hope Etho is doing well outside of his youtube carreer aswell. The last two years have been crazy for me, I cant imagine it being any different for him. Everybody experiences hard things. He never shared much of his personal life, I hope hes doing well and staying healthy!

Etho and a floating strider is the most wholesome thing in this world

19:26 Hehe my mind imagined Etho just putting a bunch of Vintagebeefs on the sandstone!😆

The kelp could definitely use some lighting to high light the green more.

The reason your treefarm is weird like that is because saplings now prevent trees from growing (as if there is a dirt block next to it). but only if the sapling is on either the north or west side of the tree. When you grow the other tree, the sapling changes into a log. Logs do not prevent the tree from growing.

woah. Its been a long time since I saw the wither skele farm

Hey Etho! I'm curious as to why this season of Hermitcraft is the one you seem to be the most dedicated to. While you've joined previous seasons of Hermitcraft, you seem to have dropped it after a short while, whereas here you have plans to stick with the server for much longer. Not complaining, I do really love the Hermitcraft content. For me it is a great way to watch you play in a new world, which many have asked about before, without replacing the current singleplayer LP world. Keep up the great work!

Oh I really needed this. It's been a tough weekend with a lot of work. Great start to the week. Thanks Etho!

Etho! I don't know if you've seen the HermitCraft sub, but they're begging you to implement the enderporter system in the Mycelium Resistance HQ like the emergency meeting button in Among Us. I don't mean to talk about HermitCraft on an LP episode, but this is important business!

Hey Etho! What about putting "fossils" and similar sea-bed finds like coral, in the wall behind the Kelp?

Hey Etho! I've been watching your videos for quite a while now, and just recently finished binge re-watching the entire second season (all the way from episode 105). It's super interesting to see how much the game--and your playing of it--has changed over time! You've given me, and countless others, no doubt, so many ideas and inspirations for how we play Minecraft. Anyway all this to say that your let's play has really had an impact on my life and brought me much joy. Keep up the amazing work, go get your snacks, and go to bed on time!

the problem with the sound sensor is it's a plant, I don't know if you've ever tried to train a plant to listen to specific commands but they aren't great at following orders. plants are very simple, they're either yes or no, if you're lucky sometimes you'll even get a maybe, I just don't see them being programmable without some sort of mod.

Hey Etho, I saw you playing Among Us with the other hermits on Grians channel the other day and you seemed to enjoy the game and the interaction with the others a lot. And it was fun to watch, too. I know that you prefer to upload quality content on your main channel and recordings like Among us wouldn´t fit the rest of your content. But have you considered making a second channel für content like this, where you don´t put a lot of afford into creation and cutting? I would love to watch you casually play a game you enjoy from time to time. Thanks for uploading regularly and keep up the good work :)

Etho: talks about how the striders are floating and stuff Me: What's up with the lava? Why is there a hole in it?

the let's play series is probably the most consistent thing in my life

Etho, you're still the best vanilla survival player, even after all this time...props :D

Idea for the Hoverboard: make some kind of parkour course. Or something with rings you gotta get through

glowing jellyfish pixel art behind the kelp could be pretty cool

Hey Etho, I know this is your single player series, but I'd just like to give some appreciation for all that you do in your Hermitcraft series. You've talked recently about why you have rarely done multiplayer/server series and I just want to thank you for all the content you've already made in this Hermitcraft season. I usually watch youtube videos sped up to give me more time to watch everything I want to, but your added effort to make those noteblock songs throughout each episode is just too nice to just let them play by at a speed they were not intended to be listened to. Thanks for all your hard work and for keeping that series going as long as you have. I'm sure most of your viewers also appreciate seeing you interact with others.

Suggestion for that Museum you wanna make: Say that striders have Shulker DNA and can float to reach Warped Fungus and escape predators.

AH yes after 300 episodes he removed the torches :P

ive been absent for awhile but ive been watching your videos for 9 years, i remember as a kid getting grounded for a week but still allowed to watch tv on my xbox 360 so i binged every video on ur channel from the start. i find my self again now in my early 20's binge watching from this video "553" all the way to 564! over a year of content. i hope you;ve been well etho your videos showed me a different way of learning, especially with the addition of redstone.

For the Skulk sensor filter, another idea would be similar to Noteblocks: The skulk could filter different sounds depending on the block that it is on.

Etho! You are a genius! You never cease to amaze me. You are by far the most unique Minecraft player.

Since striders have a collision box like shulkers or boats that you can walk on you could make a bridge somewhere using them, would be fun. Also, yes this glitch happened to almost everyone in the snapshots but I never experienced it after the first full release. Kinda sad they fixed it since you could also use it to afk travel above build limit in the overworld.

Etho's pur enjoyment of the floating striders brings me pure enjoyment

Everybody gangsta 'til Etho ride up on the floating strider.

Hey Etho. Love the series. Have been watching forever and just wanted to say thankyou for keeping me entertained

to make the kelp farm look less plain, it might be cool to have some sort of mural/design with sea lanterns on the back wall

Can I just say how much I loved the detail of when he was making the chest sorting system for the tree farm how he included the acacia and then later included him changing his mind to spruce. It adds character letting us know he doesn't always know what works. He has to change it sometimes. Small detail but stood out to me and I thought was really cool. Also not to mention his awesome "monologue" over the building montage. Very awesome Etho, love your videos more and more every episode!

For the kelp farm: The mural is divided into 3 sections, so I think it'd work if you used pillars to divide the kelp farm into 3 sections. That would probably be enough detail. I think the plainness of the kelp farm contrasts well with the high detail of the mural. So lower detail is better for the kelp farm. Love the video :) Edit: for the next 8 years, people will be using the "Etho Sculk Clock" Edit2: Love the sculk sensor idea. You could think of it as if you're training the Sculk to respond to a specific sound. So, it would hear the sound and react to it, and then you could feed it as a reward. (Classical Conditioning)

i love that there is 0 dislikes, someone didnt even do it to be the first they already know its going to be a good video

I see Etho video, I click. Life is simple.

I like the idea with the sculk sensor filters, I think a good way to do it would be to right click them to set them into listening mode like you said, and in that mode they will mimic the sound they hear, maybe in a bit of a distorted way, similar to how the parrots mimic sounds of hostile mobs around them. It will remember the sound once you've logged it in, and if you mine the block and place it back down it plays the sound again.

I'm so used to binging old LP episodes that when I saw the ender porters in the first few episodes I was like "I can't remember there being one in sandy city in later episodes"

I didn’t think anything could beat that cow UFO thing, but here we are.

Maybe you could put some beams/braces in front of the glass to give a real structure feeling to the kelp farm

It's crazy to be rewatching 8 year old Etho vids then watch a brand new one. Love ya Etho, here's to coming back and watching this again in 2028!

I feel bad whenever I see the striders shivering, don't you? But I'd take em floating eventho they are shivering haha

I have a guess about the strider glitch. It's possible that because your world is so old, the generation changed so much and maybe the striders are somehow using blocks that would have been there if they were generated in 1.16. That one guy who was slowly going up looked like what happens when they enter one of the random lavafalls, they just start swimming up. This might also explain why you can see rain underground, the rain thinks that there aren't blocks above you, so it renders itself. I might be wrong, but that's the only thing I can think of. Keep up the great work! Edit: After watching more of your experimentation, I don't really know what's going on. One guy hit the ground and took fall damage but was still floaty, which makes no sense. It could be something with their gravity being weird when they leave lava, as they float, but it's just so strange.

Hey Etho, I have a few thoughts with regards to cave update. First off it might make sense to do something similar to what you did with the previous generation change where you delete the parts of the world that you haven't built in at all so you have easier access to the new stuff. Another thing with the skulk sensor filter idea, I think they could do something similar to how noteblocks work where different blocks under them cause different filters this could act partly as a limitation since they may just add sound categories rather than every individual sound. Regardless I'm excited to see what you do with the new stuff when it comes out. PS. The kelp farm wall definitly needs some adjustments perhaps a pattern of some sort in the glass itself?

I died at “it’s a typical Canadian winter!” 😂🤣

I haven't watched Etho in a few years, but coming back to this video, I see the wither skeleton farm that I remember perfectly, because it wasn't build so long before I stoped watching :D

I’ve been sondering for a while now, but how many of Etho’s viewers are actually subscribed?

I literally have no time to watch youtube and haven't watched for days but since it is Ergo...

the one thing that has remained constant in my adolescence is Etho's survival world and all i know about him is that he has a nose and is canadian and also enjoys working out

Hi Etho, I have had the raining underground problem in my single player world before. the world is about 4 years old. After one update, I am not sure which, whenever it would rain the rain would fall underground and through the roof, it made the whole house seem damp and cold, I hated it. O also noticed that it was only in certain areas around my base and that the same areas where not showing up on maps, the map would just show a gray area like flat stone. I was able to fix both issues by building a one block thick roof over the entire effected area at a high altitude, then breaking the roof again, as I built and broke the areas they showed up on the map again and it no longer rained underground on that blocks coordinate. It was a labour intensive course of action but solved the problem and now my base feels dry and comfortable again so it was definitely worth it. It could be worth a test for you.

Oh my oh my god the entertainment's here Obscure references are obscure

Can I just say how much I can appreciate there isn't anyone screaming first in the comments.

Having a huge sneaky elder guardian face behind the kelp could be cool.

I have seen Etho hover on a floating strider, I can die happy now!!

lets gooo!

That was so weird seeing my name in this video!!! Thanks for answering anyway, would've liked to have what you'd do in a new world, been coming here ages and this gave me a bit of a shock. Have a nice day. haha.

Hey Etho! I absolutely love your Lets Play series! Even after 10 years of watching you, with me well into my mid 20’s, you have always found a way to keep me entertained. I’ve always enjoyed watching you play Minecraft and I always will, but I’m curious as to why you haven’t uploaded any more of your ARK Survival series. I remember a while back you were taking about resuming that series because of your new and improved PC, and it seemed like you still had an interest in playing it. But if that’s not the case anymore I completely understand. I can’t really complain, after all you have been bringing joy to my life for over a decade and that’s something I will forever cherish. Thank you for all you have done for my life, as well as many others I’m sure. Keep up the great work! We love you Etho!!!

In Minecraft, you ride a Strider. In Ethoslab, Strider rides you.